Season 7 (2025) Discussion: 1/14/19-1/20/19

[old timer]

Originally Posted by BoofBonser26

My league (D367) is currently on May 6th and still going...is the bug from this AM where leagues started early ongoing? Are we not stopping at the end of the month to get "on schedule"?

I'd recommend posting this to the PT bug forum to help ensure the developers find out about this (of course, they may notice this right away when their day starts, but why chance it). Or you could try contacting someone (like Lukas who's in charge of tech support) and let them know.

[Maddox]

Originally Posted by Maddox

Winterfell Direwolves (Diamond .364) - I believe I am in for a rude awakening in diamond. The team won the division last year but the two prior seasons the same squad was mediocre.

Go figure. The Direwolves went 17-9 and are tied for first with a team called The Wolves

Originally Posted by Maddox

Macon County Cardinals (Gold .338) - This team is kind of stagnant. I am convinced that for some teams it is just going to be hard to build a competitive team. The Cardinals are especially weak in Bullpen arms. The few upgrades that I can still make are extremely costly.

13-12 and 2 1/2 games out of first. I will take this since My #1 and #2 hitters (Ozzie Smith and Stan Musial) are off to slow starts just like last season.

Originally Posted by Maddox

Hungary Hungry Hippos (Bronze .289) - This is my newest team and they are focused on defense and pitching. For their first season they will have 2 players in LF and RF learning new positions so it may start out rough for them but everyone else is solid in their defense.

My defense team ended 16-11 but that is only good enough for 2nd place 2 1/2 games out of first

[Dunzie]

Originally Posted by acclaim99

Who would you guys use as your #5 starter? Here is who I can pick from:

Larry Dierker
Last season he went 19-6 with a 3.06 era. This year he is 1-3 with a 6.59 era.

Patrick Corbin
He started 33 games last year and went 13-12 with a 4.24 era. This year he's a RP and has pitched 6.2 innings, 1.35 era and 2 saves.

James Paxton
Last year he bounced between starting and relieving, ended up going 9-12 with 4 saves and a 4.89 era, 25 games started and 37 overall. Hasn't really pitched this year, going 0.2 ip, with a loss and 40.50 era.

Michael Kopech
I like his 109 stuff rating. Been a reliever the last 3 years. He had a 2.93 and 2.41 era in the last 2 years. Has pitched 6 shut out innings over 4 games.

In gold league if it matters.

Any advice?

Search out the FIP_p formula AsusRay developed. I am finding it useful for higher league levels. But bottom line for me is Paxton gets lit up like Vegas at higher levels, and for starters movement and control matter more than stuff .. I’d likely go with whoever you prefer between Dierker and Corbin. Both are effective for the most part up to diamond.

[Will_L]

After a month my guys are doing...


Laurelton Corsairs D381 16-11 1st by 1.5 Hank Aaron has 7 HR 26 RBI
QC Reavers S303 11-14 4th 5G back on a 5G losing streak
Bryce Harper (wut?) won Hitter of the Month .322 20 RBI
18 RS 197 OPS+
NYC Subway Rats D370 16-10 1st by 0.5 pitching is 1 or 2 in most
categories, offense is middling.


Pleasantly surprised by the two in Diamond but there is plenty of time for them to embrace the suck Thought the Silver team would be doing a bit better... time will tell.

[Izz]

On a side note, I earned PP from just 2 games today...

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by Orcin

OK, let me clarify my statement... when the game REQUIRES me to interact on social media platforms, I'm done. I choose to interact on this message board. I choose to avoid Discord. Got it now?

I went to Discord one day and stayed about 10 minutes. I left because of the discord. It was worse than it can get here at times. So, I left.

[jd200600]

Originally Posted by acclaim99

I'm not going to give up on Verlander just yet. He's going into his 6th season for me, his last two years had gone 15-9 each time (3.95, 2.98). But, he was last years World Series MVP, having 2 CGSO's... 18 ip, 0 er. He also led the league in strike outs last season for me.

Who did you replace Snell with?

I can get rid of Snell, and sell some cards and get live series Max Scherzer.... ? Worth it???
Man.... or I can sell Chris Sale for 20k and get Clayton Kershaw and Trevor Bauer, or someone around 7k

decisions decisions

I will check this evening. I know it was a lower rated card, so I will also let you know how that goes.

[jd200600]

Originally Posted by Izz

On a side note, I earned PP from just 2 games today...

I had similar results. Logged in expecting a bit more than I had. I wonder if the PP achievements were turned back a bit?

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by jd200600

i had similar results. Logged in expecting a bit more than i had. I wonder if the pp achievements were turned back a bit?

rofl.

[Westheim]

The Raccoons (still in Gold) started the season 4-11 and without much of a clue what it exactly that misshapen wood log, that crudely tucked ball, or the mitten with holes were for. Since then they have gone 12-5.

I like the second team better.

[jd200600]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

rofl.

Wow...

[Thalion]

Originally Posted by jd200600

I had similar results. Logged in expecting a bit more than I had. I wonder if the PP achievements were turned back a bit?

In what manner do you think PP achievements were "turned back a bit"?

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by jd200600

Wow...

You're surprised that someone finds it humorous that you think the OOTP folks are lowering how much PP folks are getting?

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Thalion

In what manner do you think PP achievements were "turned back a bit"?

Payouts for some achievements were reduced in fact.

…about two months ago.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

You're surprised that someone finds it humorous that you think the OOTP folks are lowering how much PP folks are getting?

We haven't changed payouts recently. However, as you move around to different leagues and different levels especially, the league modifiers will vary a little. So while your Doolittle will strike out 14/9 innings at Bronze or Silver, maybe he only Ks 9 in Gold. Or if Ichiro's average drops from .360 to .310, he's going to have a lot less 4+ hit games.

Or, you know, small sample sizes and random luck come in too. You also get cases where it's hard for your starter to get 10 K in a game if he gets pulled after 4 innings with 6 ER...

[jd200600]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

You're surprised that someone finds it humorous that you think the OOTP folks are lowering how much PP folks are getting?

Yeah. Things get tweaked with games all the time. One of my teams started off the season with 16 wins, near the top of both pitching and hitting, and accrued very little PP. Compared to some of my prior seasons, it seemed like statistically (and not comparing to my league mates) I would have accrued more PP.

If you do not believe that things like this get tweaked from time to time with cash-draw video games, I have a bridge to sell you. Now Matt’s explanation may be nail on head, so I will dig in a bit.

[stl jason]

Originally Posted by jd200600

Yeah. Things get tweaked with games all the time. One of my teams started off the season with 16 wins, near the top of both pitching and hitting, and accrued very little PP. Compared to some of my prior seasons, it seemed like statistically (and not comparing to my league mates) I would have accrued more PP.

If you do not believe that things like this get tweaked from time to time with cash-draw video games, I have a bridge to sell you. Now Matt’s explanation may be nail on head, so I will dig in a bit.

did you go through the box scores and see if there were any potential achievements that didn't get paid out (or that paid out less than you expected)?

the randomness of it all can get a bit frustrating, but then again, that's baseball.... last week one of my teams earned a whopping 180 points on Monday.... on Thursday they pulled in 1750.... just get that dumb luck game once in awhile (wish I had more dumb luck )

[Joshrapley]

1st Team (G.340) 19-15 Currently 2nd in the NC East behind a team who has a full line up of Switch Hitters. We could be doing even better if Lee Smith hadn't blown 3 leads in the 9th in his first 3 games (he is since been removed as closer).

Giles and Scioscia have proven huge upgrades and we haven't missed Ripken and Ventura since moving them on. Eddie Collins Sr is on course for his 5th straight 5 WAR season leading off for us.

2nd Team (S.262) 17-17 Currently 3rd in the NC Central and 5 games back from a powerhouse. We are on a 3 game losing to said powerhouse which has allowed a team to slip ahead of us.

Royce Lewis is a stud at leadoff and 2B. Dan T Murphy has hit 30 RBI's hitting behind Lewis. However, Tatis Jr has been useless. We severely lack power anyway and his 4 RBI's and 0 HR in 140 PA aren't helping. What makes it worse hes currently developing at 3B so he is already liability defensively to a tune of -2.6ZR.

[old timer]

This diamond league is definitely a lot easier than the original diamond league I joined. With the super-teams gone, we're actually mediocre this time around. So far we're 18-17 and we even have a few players amongst the league leaders.

Ken Boyer is 2nd in WAR, Chris Carpenter is 3rd in WAR for pitchers, George Uhle is still leading the conference in ERA (it's a fluke, but it's amusing seeing my weakest starter dominating so far at the diamond level, when he was never great at even the lowest levels). And Klein is still on top in HRs (which won't last either).

[jd200600]

Originally Posted by stl jason

did you go through the box scores and see if there were any potential achievements that didn't get paid out (or that paid out less than you expected)?



the randomness of it all can get a bit frustrating, but then again, that's baseball.... last week one of my teams earned a whopping 180 points on Monday.... on Thursday they pulled in 1750.... just get that dumb luck game once in awhile (wish I had more dumb luck )

I am almost for certain that is what it was, just seemed odd. Matt’s explanation could make a ton of sense as well with being a different league.